Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630–1790

Delgado, Jessica L.

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“…19 Women, as Jessica Delgado has shown, also turned to the courts to seek redress, but judges routinely acted to uphold the institution of marriage. 20 Some women decided to cohabitate with their lovers rather than marry in an official Church ceremony; or they chose to remain single or enter a convent. 21 Only widows (and those over 26) gained legal rights; and, although poverty could threaten their ability to survive, they could live without the permission and control of a husband.…”

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Female Agency and Scandal: Doña Josefa de Angulo in 17th-Century Mexico City

Curcio-Nagy

2024

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Este ensayo se examina la vida de Doña Josefa de Angulo a través de un análisis de un caso inquisitorial del año 1661. Josefa, casada con un hombre mucho mayor, Juan de Vilches quien la depositó en el Recogimiento de la Magdalena, se mostraba un esfuerzo concentrado en vivir su vida por sí misma, rechazando las expectativas para una criolla casada y acomodada. Ella dramáticamente alteró la vida cotidiana en el recogimiento y provocó una serie de sucesos escandalosas las cuales se involucraban los empleados de la dicha institución, el arzobispo y su personal, sus hijastros, los inquisidores, y su confesor Miguel de Palmares, lo cual le acusó de solicitación en el confesionario. Ella desafiaba las normas sobre el matrimonio, la supuesta sumisión femenina a la autoridad masculina, y el mismo propósito del recogimiento. Su historia se ilumina la complicada relación entre el control social de género y la idea del escándalo en la capital virreinal.

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Female Agency and Scandal: Doña Josefa de Angulo in 17th-Century Mexico City

Curcio-Nagy

2024

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Male Violence and Female Resistance in the Sacrament of Penance: Accounts Before the Inquisitorial Tribunals in Colonial America (Seventeenth Century)

Meneses Muñoz

2024

Resistance in the Iberian Worlds From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

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Islands in the Lake

Conway

2021

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Now notorious for its aridity and air pollution, Mexico City was once part of a flourishing lake environment. In nearby Xochimilco, Native Americans modified the lakes to fashion a distinctive and remarkably abundant aquatic society, one that provided a degree of ecological autonomy for local residents, enabling them to protect their communities' integrity, maintain their way of life, and preserve many aspects of their cultural heritage. While the area's ecology allowed for a wide array of socioeconomic and cultural continuities during colonial rule, demographic change came to affect the ecological basis of the lakes; pastoralism and new ways of using and modifying the lakes began to make a mark on the watery landscape and on the surrounding communities. In this fascinating study, Conway explores Xochimilco using native-language documents, which serve as a hallmark of this continuity and a means to trace patterns of change.

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Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630–1790

Abstract: The analytical lens of "local religion" has been particularly helpful in moving beyond these binaries.

Cited by 19 publications

References 76 publications

Female Agency and Scandal: Doña Josefa de Angulo in 17th-Century Mexico City

Female Agency and Scandal: Doña Josefa de Angulo in 17th-Century Mexico City

Male Violence and Female Resistance in the Sacrament of Penance: Accounts Before the Inquisitorial Tribunals in Colonial America (Seventeenth Century)

Islands in the Lake

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